José María (abbreviated José Mª) is a

Spanish language Spanish ( or , Castilian) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from colloquial Latin spoken on the Iberian peninsula. Today, it is a global language with more than 500 million native speakers, mainly in the ...

male

given name A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a ...

, usually considered a single given name rather than two names, and is a combination of the Spanish names of

Joseph Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the m ...

and

Mary Mary may refer to: People * Mary (name), a feminine given name (includes a list of people with the name) Religious contexts * New Testament people named Mary, overview article linking to many of those below * Mary, mother of Jesus, also calle ...

, the parents of

Jesus Christ Jesus, likely from he, יֵשׁוּעַ, translit=Yēšūaʿ, label= Hebrew/ Aramaic ( AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ or Jesus of Nazareth (among other names and titles), was a first-century Jewish preacher and relig ...

.Rafael Falcón, Christine Yoder Falcón - ''Salsa: A Taste of Hispanic Culture'' Page 32 1998 "... though Maria, when used for a male, is usually in the format of a middle name: Jose Maria or Jesus Maria, for example." The separate names "

José José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernac ...

" for males and " María" for females also exist in the Spanish language. They can also combine in the inverse order forming the ''female'' name "María José" (Mª José); that is, the gender of the compound names "José María" and "María José" is determined by their first component. The name "José María" is colloquially shortened to "José Mari", "Josema" or replaced by the

hypocoristic A hypocorism ( or ; from Ancient Greek: (), from (), 'to call by pet names', sometimes also ''hypocoristic'') or pet name is a name used to show affection for a person. It may be a diminutive form of a person's name, such as '' Izzy'' for ...

forms "Chema", "Chemari" or "Chemis". There are also combinations of other male given names with ''María'', for example ''Carlos María'', ''Juan María'' and ''Luis María''. "José María", with its

Portuguese language Portuguese ( or, in full, ) is a western Romance languages, Romance language of the Indo-European language family, originating in the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. It is an official language of Portugal, Brazil, Cape Verde, Angola, Mozambique, ...

equivalent José Maria (notice the absence of the

acute accent The acute accent (), , is a diacritic used in many modern written languages with alphabets based on the Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek scripts. For the most commonly encountered uses of the accent in the Latin and Greek alphabets, precomposed ...

over the i in the Portuguese version) is a common name, and many famous people have the name or a similar one.

Spanish names

José María de Achá José María de Achá Valiente (8 July 1810 – 29 January 1868) was a Bolivian general who served as the 14th president of Bolivia from 1861 to 1864. He served in the battles of the Peru-Bolivian Confederation and conspired against longtim ...

, President of Bolivia from 1861 to 1864 *

José María Amorrortu José María Amorrortu Prieto (born 22 July 1953) is a Spanish former football forward and manager. Playing career Born in Bilbao, Biscay, Amorrortu signed with Athletic Bilbao in the summer of 1973 from neighbouring amateurs CD Getxo. He went ...

, Spanish football player and manager *

José María Aznar José María Alfredo Aznar López (; born 25 February 1953) is a Spanish politician who was the prime minister of Spain from 1996 to 2004. He led the People's Party (PP), the dominant centre-right political party in Spain. A member of the Fre ...

, President of the Government of Spain from 1996 to 2004 * José María Barreda, President of the Spanish autonomous region of Castile-La Mancha * José María Callejón (born 1987), Spanish football (soccer) player *

Josemaría Escrivá Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer y Albás (9 January 1902 – 26 June 1975) was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest. He founded Opus Dei, an organization of laypeople and priests dedicated to the teaching that everyone is called to holiness ...

, Spanish Catholic priest - founder of

Opus Dei Opus Dei, formally known as the Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei ( la, Praelatura Sanctae Crucis et Operis Dei), is an institution of the Catholic Church whose members seek personal Christian holiness and strive to imbue their work ...

* José María Franco, Uruguayan footballer *José María García Lafuente, commonly known as " José Mari": Spanish footballer, born 1971 *

Jose Mari Gonzales Jose Mari C. Gonzalez or Jose Mari Gonzales (July 26, 1938 – April 16, 2019) was a Filipino actor, executive, matinee idol and politician. Career Gonzales entered the movies at the age of 17 in the late 1950s. He appeared in ''Ulilang Anghel ...

, Filipino actor * José María Gutiérrez, commonly known as "Guti": Spanish footballer * José María Hernández, Spanish politician *

José María Linares José María Linares Lizarazu (10 July 1808 – 23 October 1861) was a Bolivian lawyer and politician who served as the 13th president of Bolivia from 1857 to 1861. Early life and education He was born in Tical, Potosí, in his family's hacie ...

, President of Bolivia from 1857 to 1861 *José María Martín Bejarano-Serrano, commonly known as " José Mari": Spanish footballer, born 1987 *

José María Morelos José María Teclo Morelos Pérez y Pavón () (30 September 1765 – 22 December 1815) was a Mexican Catholic priest, statesman and military leader who led the Mexican War of Independence movement, assuming its leadership after the execution of ...

, Mexican revolutionary *

José María Napoleón José María Napoleón Ruiz Narváez (born August 18, 1948) is a Mexican singer and composer. Life He arrived from Aguascalientes to Mexico City in 1966. He competed in the national Méxican OTI Festival, the National final to select the Mexi ...

, Mexican singer and songwriter, born 1950 * José María Olazábal, Spanish golfer, born 1966 *José María Romero Poyón, commonly known as " José Mari": Spanish footballer, born 1978 *

José María Ruiz Mateos José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacul ...

, Spanish businessman and former politician *

Jose Maria Sison Jose Maria Canlas Sison (February 8, 1939 – December 16, 2022), also known by his nickname Joma, was a Filipino writer and activist who founded the Communist Party of the Philippines and added elements of Maoism to its philosophy – which w ...

, a notorious Filipino of the Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas who blended elements of

Maoism Maoism, officially called Mao Zedong Thought by the Chinese Communist Party, is a variety of Marxism–Leninism that Mao Zedong developed to realise a socialist revolution in the agricultural, pre-industrial society of the Republic of Ch ...

to his ideology; viewed by many as a terrorist * José María Zárraga, Spanish international footballer

Portuguese names

*Miguel Boaventura Lucena, known as "

José Maria de Santo Agostinho José Maria de Santo Agostinho, born Miguel Boaventura Lucena (died 22 October 1912), was a Brazilian religious leader from the state of Santa Catarina. He was the third of three monks named João Maria who appeared in turn in southern Brazil, p ...

" or simply "José Maria": a mystic leader in the Contestado War in Brazil * José Maria Marin, Brazilian politician * José Maria Rodrigues Alves, nicknamed "Zé Maria": retired Brazilian footballer

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